05/23/2023
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"We have spent billions and trillions of dollars to rebuild Afghanistan, and we cannot build your bridges and your roads right here in America."
"But the fundamental question is the policy that is going to be advocated by the Congress of the United States and whether this thing is working at all."
"I have been to Afghanistan four times, and it is extraordinary, extraordinary to me, to see what our soldiers are accomplishing under extraordinarily, extraordinarily difficult circumstances."
"The problem is that Congress continues to pass bills that waste money over there, and we cannot even get a debate."